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by jey 13y ago
A vimium that doesn't suck would be more useful than this. :-/
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by jey 13y ago
Has a causal relationship been demonstrated from nuts to health, or is this only a correlation? Couldn't it be that health-conscious people are healthier on average, and they usually choose to snack on nuts instead of snacking on somet
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by jey 13y ago
Is this a site that is trying to (inefficiently) harvest IPs <-> emails? :P
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by jey 13y ago
I tried to login to Hackpad with Google, and it's asking for permission to "manage my contacts"? No thanks.
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by jey 13y ago
The whole point of it is to avoid telling the court and defense about unconstitutional search procedures that were used, i.e. omitting them.
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by jey 13y ago
Or maybe they just realized they couldn't really legally justify the the "parallel reconstruction" thing where they basically lie to the court through omission.
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by jey 13y ago
Kind of weird that this even needs to be said. Do most people really have that strong of a fetish for authority? Experts/advisors have lots of experience in general, but you have more experience with your specific situation. Someone wh
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by jey 13y ago
Yeah, true. But isn't it still in the neighborhood of 2%?
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by jey 13y ago
Definition of "hacker": http://www.catb.org/jargon/html/H/hacker.html A "developer" is usually someone who just codes for money, isn't into it, and therefore probably sloppy.
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by jey 13y ago
They're obviously taking a loss on this (due to credit card fees) if the recipient gets the full amount sent. So this must be a loss-leader that's building up to something else where they expect to make a ton of money. That "
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by jey 13y ago
Nope. http://www.paulgraham.com/gba.html
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by jey 13y ago
That seems dumb. If you require a particular ordering, you should have to specify it and it might cost extra to put the results in that order.
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by jey 13y ago
Derp, yes. It's not an auxiliary index. However, it still seems weird for a full table scan to be implemented this way instead of whatever's convenient given the page layout. Why does it guarantee that the results will be in PK or
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by jey 13y ago
> When doing full table scan, InnoDB scans pages and rows by primary key order. What the fuck?
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by jey 13y ago
Thanks for the response. So decimal-in-silicon doesn't matter for scientific computing after all. :)
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by jey 13y ago
The original post that started this thread was saying that chips should support decimal floating point natively in silicon instead of only base-2 floating point. Yes, those are different things: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki
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by jey 13y ago
Arbitrary precision != decimal. So the question still stands, why would decimal matter?
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by jey 13y ago
Right, and I can see why that's a problem in accounting, but why does it matter for scientific computing? I do a fair amount of stuff that could be called scientific computing, and I just use doubles. If I need to keep track of uncerta
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by jey 13y ago
Why does scientific computing care about decimal arithmetic?
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by jey 13y ago
Your survey implicitly assumes that all consultants are looking to maximize their income. When I was consulting, I was trying to get by with the least amount of consulting work that I could manage so I could spend the rest of my time on mor
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by jey 13y ago
Good question. I had assumed that he was referring to a synergistic effect of MAOIs and Nicotine causing increased addictive potential, but I really have no idea whether monoamine oxidase is involved in the metabolization of nicotine.
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by jey 13y ago
No, I don't use either of those terms often enough to have an acronym for it. (FWIW, apparently "SMB" means "Small-to-Medium Business".)
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by jey 13y ago
Apparently "SME" means "Small & Medium Enterprises".
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by jey 13y ago
Most people in South India are mostly Dravidian: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dravidian_peoples
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by jey 13y ago
Response spectra of human cones: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/04/Co... The medium ("green") and long ("red") cones are pretty close and similar. It&#x27
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by jey 13y ago
I'm just relieved to find out that "CLANG" isn't a video game you play by writing C++ code with the Clang compiler. LLVM's C++ frontend is cool, but not that cool.
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by jey 13y ago
You can take measurements with respect to particular objectives. For example, does product description A or product description B lead to higher sales? I agree you can't measure something as vague as "complex ideas and values&quot
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by jey 13y ago
> This “face-off chart” in particular has all the charm of pulling out a spreadsheet on a date. What's wrong with data? The author doesn't actually explain how it's certain that there are no metrics which could act as a re
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by jey 13y ago
> and clearly it doesn't get false positives often given the response they showed How is this a reasonable assumption? When the probability of it legitimately going off is so low, most times it actually goes off are probably just fa
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by jey 13y ago
What's the gist of these supposedly major changes to the V8 APIs?

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